2007 Rafael Nadal tennis season

2007 Rafael Nadal tennis season

Full name	Rafael Nadal Parera
Country	Spain
Calendar prize money	$4,896,935 (Singles $4,862,310, Doubles $34,625)[1] [2]
Singles
Season record	70–15
Calendar titles	6
Year-end ranking	No. 2
Ranking change from previous year
Grand Slam & significant results
Australian Open	QF
French Open	W
Wimbledon	F
US Open	4R
Injuries
Injuries	Knee Injury
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The 2007 Rafael Nadal tennis season officially began on 1 January 2007 with the start of the Chennai Open. He won five titles, including one Major and three Masters.

Rafael Nadal started the year by playing in six hard-court tournaments. He lost in the semifinals and first round of his first two tournaments and then lost in the quarterfinals of the Australian Open to eventual runner-up Fernando González.^[3] After another quarterfinal loss at the Dubai Tennis Championships, he won the Indian Wells Masters after beating Novak Djokovic in the final, before losing to Djokovic in the quarterfinals of the 2007 Miami Masters.^[4]

He played five clay-court tournaments in Europe after that, winning the titles at the Monte-Carlo Masters, the Torneo Godó in Barcelona, and the Italian Open, before losing to Roger Federer in the final of the Hamburg Masters. This defeat ended his 81-match winning streak on clay, which is the male Open Era record for consecutive wins on a single surface.^[5] He bounced back quickly in the French Open, not dropping a set en route to the final where he faced Federer once again, this time winning in four sets to join Björn Borg as the only man to win three French Open titles in a row since 1914.^[6]

Between the tournaments in Barcelona and Rome, Nadal defeated Federer in the "Battle of Surfaces" exhibition match in Mallorca, Spain, with the tennis court being half grass and half clay.^[7][8]

Nadal played the Artois Championships at the Queen's Club in London for the second consecutive year. As in 2006, Nadal was upset in the quarterfinals. Nadal then won consecutive five-set matches during the third and fourth rounds of Wimbledon before being beaten by Federer in the five-set final. This was Federer's first five-set match at Wimbledon since 2001.^[9]

In July, Nadal beat the unseeded Stan Wawrinka in the final of the clay-court Stuttgart Open, which proved to be his last title of the year.^[10] He played three important tournaments during the North American summer hard court season. He was a semifinalist at the Canadian Masters in Montreal before losing his first match at the Cincinnati Masters.^[11] He was the second-seeded player at the US Open, but was defeated in the fourth round by David Ferrer, and spent the tournament dealing with a knee injury.^[12][13]

After a month-long break from tournament tennis, Nadal played the Madrid Masters in Madrid and the Paris Masters, but David Nalbandian beat him in straight sets in the quarterfinals and final of those tournaments.^[14] To end the year, Nadal won two of his three-round robin matches to advance to the semifinals of the Tennis Masters Cup in Shanghai, where Federer defeated him in straight sets.^[15]

In addition, there were rumors at the end of the year that the foot injury he suffered during 2005, caused long-term damage, which were given credence by coach Toni Nadal's claim that the problem was "serious". Nadal and his spokesman strongly denied this, however, with Nadal himself calling the story "totally false".^[13]

Tournament	Match	Round	Opponent	Rank	Result	Score
Chennai Open Chennai, India ATP World Tour 250 Hard, outdoor 1–8 January 2007	1 / 235	1R	Rainer Schüttler	96	Win	6–4, 6–2
	2 / 236	2R	Karan Rastogi	480	Win	6–4, 6–1
	3 / 237	QF	Davide Sanguinetti	106	Win	6–3, 6–2
	4 / 238	SF	Xavier Malisse	37	Loss	4–6, 6–7(4–7)
Medibank International Sydney, Australia ATP World Tour 250 Hard, outdoor 7–13 January 2007	5 / 239	1R	Chris Guccione	107	Loss	5–6 RET
Australian Open Melbourne, Australia Grand Slam Hard, outdoor 15–28 January 2007	6 / 240	1R	Robert Kendrick	90	Win	7–6(8–6), 6–3, 6–2
	7 / 241	2R	Philipp Kohlschreiber	61	Win	7–5, 6–3, 4–6, 6–2
	8 / 242	3R	Stan Wawrinka	40	Win	6–2, 6–2, 6–2
	9 / 243	4R	Andy Murray	16	Win	6–7(3–7), 6–4, 4–6, 6–3, 6–1
	10 / 244	QF	Fernando González	9	Loss	2–6, 4–6, 3–6
Barclays Dubai Tennis Championships Dubai, UAE ATP World Tour 500 Hard, outdoor 26 February 26 – 4 March 2007	11 / 245	1R	Marcos Baghdatis	17	Win	3–6, 6–2, 6–3
	12 / 246	2R	Igor Andreev	139	Win	6–2, 3–6, 7–6(7–2)
	13 / 247	QF	Mikhail Youzhny	18	Loss	6–7(5–7), 3–6
Pacific Life Open Indian Wells, United States ATP World Tour Masters 1000 Hard, outdoor 5–18 March 2007	–	1R	Bye
	14 / 248	2R	Arnaud Clément	53	Win	6–3, 7–6(7–3)
	15 / 249	3R	Fernando Verdasco	33	Win	6–4, 6–4
	16 / 250	4R	Juan Carlos Ferrero	23	Win	6–1, 6–1
	17 / 251	QF	Juan Ignacio Chela	31	Win	7–5, 7–5
	18 / 252	SF	Andy Roddick	3	Win	6–4, 6–3
	19 / 253	W	Novak Djokovic	13	Win (1)	6–2, 7–5
Sony Ericsson Open Miami, United States ATP World Tour Masters 1000 Hard, outdoor 21 March – 1 April 2007	–	1R	Bye
	20 / 254	2R	Ricardo Mello	127	Win	7–6(9–7), 6–2
	–	3R	Olivier Rochus	36	Win	W/O
	21 / 255	4R	Juan Martín del Potro	63	Win	6–0, 6–4
	22 / 256	QF	Novak Djokovic	10	Loss	3–6, 4–6
Monte Carlo Masters Monte Carlo, Monaco ATP World Tour Masters 1000 Clay, outdoor 14–22 April 2007	–	1R	Bye
	23 / 257	2R	Juan Ignacio Chela	22	Win	6–3, 6–1
	24 / 258	3R	Kristof Vliegen	52	Win	6–3, 6–1
	25 / 259	QF	Philipp Kohlschreiber	59	Win	6–2, 6–3
	26 / 260	SF	Tomáš Berdych	14	Win	6–0, 7–5
	27 / 261	W	Roger Federer	1	Win (2)	6–4, 6–4
Torneo Godo Barcelona, Spain ATP World Tour 500 Clay, outdoor 23–29 April 2007	–	1R	Bye
	28 / 262	2R	Kristof Vliegen	53	Win	6–1, 6–2
	29 / 263	3R	Thomas Johansson	73	Win	6–1, 6–4
	30 / 264	QF	Potito Starace	72	Win	6–2, 7–5
	31 / 265	SF	David Ferrer	16	Win	7–5, 6–1
	32 / 266	W	Guillermo Cañas	28	Win (3)	6–3, 6–4
Internazionali BNL d'Italia Rome, Italy ATP World Tour Masters 1000 Clay, outdoor 5–13 May 2007	–	1R	Bye
	33 / 267	2R	Daniele Bracciali	125	Win	6–4, 6–2
	34 / 268	3R	Mikhail Youzhny	16	Win	6–2, 6–2
	35 / 269	QF	Novak Djokovic	5	Win	6–2, 6–3
	36 / 270	SF	Nikolay Davydenko	4	Win	7–6(7–3), 6–7(8–10), 6–4
	37 / 271	W	Fernando González	6	Win (4)	6–2, 6–2
Masters Series Hamburg Hamburg, Germany ATP World Tour Masters 1000 Clay, outdoor 14–22 May 2007	–	1R	Bye
	38 / 272	2R	Óscar Hernández	69	Win	7–5, 6–1
	39 / 273	3R	Igor Andreev	164	Win	6–4, 6–1
	40 / 274	QF	Fernando González	5	Win	6–4, 6–4
	41 / 275	SF	Lleyton Hewitt	21	Win	2–6, 6–3, 7–5
	42 / 276	F	Roger Federer	1	Loss (1)	6–2, 2–6, 0–6
French Open Paris, France Grand Slam Clay, outdoor 27 May – 10 June 2007	43 / 277	1R	Juan Martín del Potro	59	Win	7–5, 6–3, 6–2
	44 / 278	2R	Flavio Cipolla	227	Win	6–2, 6–1, 6–4
	45 / 279	3R	Albert Montañés	50	Win	6–1, 6–3, 6–2
	46 / 280	4R	Lleyton Hewitt	16	Win	6–3, 6–1, 7–6(7–5)
	47 / 281	QF	Carlos Moyá	26	Win	6–4, 6–3, 6–0
	48 / 282	SF	Novak Djokovic	6	Win	7–5, 6–4, 6–2
	49 / 283	W	Roger Federer	1	Win (5)	6–3, 4–6, 6–3, 6–4
Stella Artois Championships London, United Kingdom ATP World Tour 250 Grass, outdoor 11–17 June 2007	–	1R	Bye
	50 / 284	2R	Juan Martín del Potro	59	Win	6–4, 6–4,
	51 / 285	3R	Max Mirnyi	58	Win	7–6(7–3), 6–3
	52 / 286	QF	Nicolas Mahut	106	Loss	5–7, 6–7(0–7)
The Championships, Wimbledon Wimbledon, United Kingdom Grand Slam Grass, outdoor 25 June – 8 July 2007	53 / 287	1R	Mardy Fish	38	Win	6–3, 7–6(7–4), 6–3
	54 / 288	2R	Werner Eschauer	72	Win	6–2, 6–4, 6–1
	55 / 289	3R	Robin Söderling	28	Win	6–4, 6–4, 6–7(7–9), 4–6, 7–5
	56 / 290	4R	Mikhail Youzhny	13	Win	4–6, 3–6, 6–1, 6–2, 6–2
	57 / 291	QF	Tomáš Berdych	11	Win	7–6(7–1), 6–4, 6–2
	58 / 292	SF	Novak Djokovic	5	Win	3–6, 6–1, 4–1 RET
	59 / 293	F	Roger Federer	1	Loss (2)	6–7(7–9), 6–4, 6–7(3–7), 6–2, 2–6
Mercedes Cup Stuttgart, Germany ATP World Tour 500 Clay, outdoor 16–23 July 2007	60 / 294	1R	Alexander Waske	135	Win	6–1, 6–1
	61 / 295	2R	Philipp Kohlschreiber	37	Win	6–3, 6–3
	62 / 296	QF	Juan Mónaco	29	Win	6–1, 6–3
	63 / 297	SF	Feliciano López	84	Win	6–1, 7–5
	64 / 298	W	Stan Wawrinka	50	Win (6)	6–4, 7–5
Rogers Cup Montreal, Canada ATP World Tour Masters 1000 Hard, outdoor 6–12 August 2007	–	1R	Bye
	65 / 299	2R	Marat Safin	22	Win	7–6(7–4), 6–0
	66 / 300	3R	Paul-Henri Mathieu	23	Win	3–6, 6–3, 6–2
	67 / 301	QF	Frank Dancevic	91	Win	4–6, 6–2, 6–3
	68 / 302	SF	Novak Djokovic	4	Loss	5–7, 3–6
Western & Southern Financial Group Masters Ohio, United States ATP World Tour Masters 1000 Hard, outdoor 11–19 August 2007	–	1R	Bye
	69 / 303	2R	Juan Mónaco	25	Loss	6–7(5–7), 1–4 RET
US Open New York, USA Grand Slam Hard, outdoor 27 August – 9 September 2007	70 / 304	1R	Alun Jones	123	Win	7–5, 3–6, 6–4, 6–1
	71 / 305	2R	Janko Tipsarević	56	Win	6–2, 6–3, 3–2 RET
	72 / 306	3R	Jo-Wilfried Tsonga	74	Win	7–6(7–3), 6–2, 6–1
	73 / 307	4R	David Ferrer	15	Loss	7–6(7–3), 4–6, 6–7(4–7), 2–6
Mutua Madrileña Masters Madrid Madrid, Spain ATP World Tour Masters 1000 Hard, indoor 15–21 October 2007	–	1R	Bye
	74 / 308	2R	Marcos Baghdatis	22	Win	6–4, 6–4
	75 / 309	3R	Andy Murray	17	Win	7–6(7–5), 6–4
	76 / 310	QF	David Nalbandian	25	Loss	1–6, 2–6
BNP Paribas Masters Paris, France ATP World Tour Masters 1000 Hard, indoor 27 October – 4 November 2007	–	1R	Bye
	77 / 311	2R	Filippo Volandri	41	Win	6–3, 6–1
	78 / 312	3R	Stan Wawrinka	36	Win	6–4, 6–3
	79 / 313	QF	Mikhail Youzhny	18	Win	6–4, 6–2
	80 / 314	SF	Marcos Baghdatis	22	Win	4–6, 6–4, 6–3
	81 / 315	F	David Nalbandian	21	Loss (3)	4–6, 0–6
Tennis Masters Cup Shanghai, China Year-end Championships Hard, indoor 11–18 November 2007	82 / 316	RR	Richard Gasquet	8	Win	3–6, 6–3, 6–4
	83 / 317	RR	David Ferrer	6	Loss	6–4, 4–6, 3–6
	84 / 318	RR	Novak Djokovic	3	Win	6–4, 6–4
	85 / 319	SF	Roger Federer	1	Loss	4–6, 1–6

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